Mrs Carrie Lam, GBM, GBS
Mrs Carrie Lam joined the Administrative Service of the Hong Kong Government in August 1980 and rose to the rank of Administrative Officer Staff Grade A1 in September 2006. She became a Principal Official on July 1, 2007 when she was appointed Secretary for Development. She was appointed Chief Secretary for Administration on July 1, 2012.
Mrs Lam ...

Paul Farmer has been Chief Executive of Mind, the leading mental health charity working in England and Wales since May 2006.
Mind’s vision is to ensure everyone experiencing a mental health problem gets both support and respect. The charity campaigns to improve services, raise awareness, promote understanding and provides advice and support on the phone, digitally and locally. ...

Dr Constance Chan is the Director of Health of Hong Kong. Dr Chan joined the Government as a Medical and Health Officer in 1988 and was appointed as Director of the Department of Health in 2012. Before her current appointment, she served as Controller of the Centre for Food Safety of the Food & Environmental Hygiene Department between 2007 and mid-2012. Dr. Chan is a ...

MD, PhD, FRCP, FRANZCP
Professor Patrick McGorry is the Executive Director of Orygen, Professor of Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne, and a Director of the Board of the National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace). He is a world-leading researcher in the area of early psychosis and youth mental health, and has a strong interest in ...

Eric Chen has been working on understanding how the human mind could sometimes enter into a pathological state called Psychosis, and how best to help people in that state of mind. Psychosis occurs when the brain system of engaging with reality fails.
Eric Chen studied medicine at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities. He received specialist psychiatry training at Nottingham and continued senior ...

President of the International Association for the Promotion of Mental Health Programmes

Professor Norman Sartorius, MD, MA, DPM, PhD, FRCPsych, obtained his M.D. in Zagreb (Croatia). He specialized in neurology and psychiatry and subsequently obtained a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in psychology (Ph.D.). He carried out clinical work and research and taught at graduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Zagreb, at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, at the ...

Consultant Psychiatrist
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Professor of Community Psychiatry
King’s College London
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
Director
King’s Improvement Science, King’s Health Partners
Chair
Maudsley International
Graham Thornicroft is Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, ...

Editor, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry; Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Australia

MBChB, BSc(Hons), MD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP
Professor Malhi holds a chair in psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. He is Head of the Department at Royal North Shore Hospital and is Director of the CADE Clinic.
Having obtained degrees in Pharmacology and medicine in the UK, he completed general psychiatry training in Cambridge and specialist training at the ...

Director, Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong

Professor Paul Yip is the Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Chair Professor of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration and the Director of the HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention in The University of Hong Kong. Prof. Yip received the Medal of Honor (MH), Chief Executive Honours and Awards, HKSAR (2017), Knowledge Exchange Award, The ...

Poppy Jaman is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England, a mental health training provider and one of the UK’s fastest growing women-led small businesses. She has been with the organisation for eight years, turning it from a small government project into a fast-growing, commercially successful community interest company. As an internationally ...

Deborah Kan is a new media entrepreneur, media speaker and award-winning news anchor and journalist.
Executive Editor and Founder of Being Patient, she seeks to redefine health media by creating single-subject platforms around specific health topics. Being Patient is launching a news site this July solely dedicated to covering Alzheimer’s disease.
Kan was ...

Ashley Alder is the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission.
Ashley came to Hong Kong in 1989 with the international law firm Herbert Smith, practising corporate and business law. He was Executive Director of Corporate Finance at the SFC from 2001 to 2004, before returning to Herbert Smith, later as head of the firm’s Asia Region. He rejoined the SFC in 2011. ...

Chair of Health and Social Work, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong

Professor Cecilia L. W. Chan is Si Yuan Chair Professor in Health and Social Work, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chan is known for her leadership on health and mental health in social work. She adopted a strength-oriented empowerment approach in working with traumatized individuals such as patients with cancer, depression, ...

Gabriel Leung became the fortieth Dean of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong in 2013. He concurrently holds the Chair of Public Health Medicine. Previously he was Professor and Head of Community Medicine at the University and served as Hong Kong’s first Under Secretary for Food and Health and fifth Director of the Chief Executive's Office in government.
Leung is one of ...

Dr. Verena LAU is the Senior Educational Psychologist at the Education Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She received her Master of Science in Educational Psychology from the University College London and Doctor of Education from the University of Hong Kong. She is a member of the Expert Group on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services under the Review ...

Robert Miller was born in Sheffield, England (1943), and has degrees from Oxford and Glasgow universities. As a medical student his first research, on neurophysiology, was done in Oxford (1965). However, he experienced disabling psychiatric problems culminating in a psychotic breakdown. He abandoned a medical career, and retrained as a neuroscientist, and emigrated to New Zealand in ...

Dr Layla McCay is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, a global think tank that explores how architects, urban planners and others can design better mental health into cities. Her research focuses on the environmental determinants of mental health and she has authored a range of academic papers and book chapters on urban mental health; she also ...

Associate Dean for Strategy and Professor of Dementia, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Sube Banerjee is Professor of Dementia and Deputy Dean at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, directing its Centre for Dementia Studies. Clinically he works as an old age psychiatrist. He served as the UK Department of Health’s senior professional advisor on dementia leading the development of its National Dementia Strategy. He is active in health system development and works with industry ...

Emma Slade is an inspirational speaker. Her life has demonstrated the potential for human growth and change.
Overcoming the trauma of being held hostage in 1997 in Jakarta she went on to leave her high flying finance career and embark on a journey to greater understanding.
She has written in clear and honest terms about this journey in her book Set Free which describes this and her decision to ...

Mark Linington is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with children and adults (UKCP reg.) with The Bowlby Centre in London, UK. At The Bowlby Centre, he is Chair of the executive committee, a training therapist, clinical supervisor, teacher and research lead. He worked for 12 years in the UK National Health Service as a psychotherapist with children and adults with ...

Robbie McRobbie joined the Hong Kong Rugby Union in 2003 after serving 11 years in the Hong Kong Police Force.
He has a MA (Oxon) and completed a PGC in Sports & Recreation Management at HKU Space in 2001.
He is a Director of local charity, Operation Breakthrough, which uses sport as a medium to help at-risk youngsters, and previously served 6 years as a Community Representative on ...

Dr. Chan is a clinical associate professor of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong. He is also an honorary consultant at Queen Mary Hospital, and leads the psychogeriatric service in the Hong Kong West Cluster.
He is currently the President of Chinese Dementia Research Association, the Chief Editor of East Asian Archives of Psychiatry, and the convenor of clinical ...

An Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with over 20 years experience working in education Tim is Head of Student Support at the English Schools foundation in Hong Kong. His responsibilities include supporting student, teacher and parent wellbeing, and overseeing child protection and safeguarding. Tim has expertise in the management of critical incidents and Bereavements ...

After graduating from medical school in London, United Kingdom, Dr. Ho started her psychiatric training at the Maudsley and South London National Health Services Trust. She returned to Hong Kong in 2005 and continued her training at Castle Peak Hospital. She became a Specialist in Psychiatry in 2008. She attained a Master in Social Sciences (Criminology) in 2010.
Dr. Ho has a special ...

Deputy Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong

Daisy is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Medical Ethics & Law and an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Her research interests are in the field of medical law, primarily mental health law and ethics. She has researched on the compulsory admission and treatment regime in Hong Kong, and has presented conference papers locally and internationally on ...

Maya currently is in her tenth​ year as the Lower Primary Principal at Hong Kong International School. Prior to coming to HKIS, Maya was the Student Services Director at Taipei American School where she implemented the first ever School Within A School Program for students with more moderate level learning ​needs.
Maya has served as a consultant to schools around the world. ...

Mary Jo Santo Pietro, Ph.D. is a professor in the graduate program in speech-language pathology in the School of Communication Disorders and Deafness at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, USA. She is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and specializes in neurogenic communication disorders in adult and geriatric populations, particularly aphasia and dementia. Dr. Santo ...

Eddie is an Animal Assisted Interventions Practitioner, a Counselor and a Canine behaviourist with canine related services background such as guide dogs and therapy dogs. He is the only US Pet Partners® Therapy Dog International Evaluator in Hong Kong. His organized activities aim at creating a society with equality and mutual love between human and animals. He founded a charitable ...

Peter qualified in medicine at Westminster Medical School. Having first worked as a physician at The Whittington Hospital and KCH, he trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene. He has been Professor of Psychiatry at Cambridge since 2000, Head of Department of Psychiatry from 2000-2014, and Deputy Head of the Clinical School since ...

Chris Sammons has been a secondary school educator for twenty-four years working in the UK and Hong Kong. Working in a variety of positions, including curriculum and pastoral leadership, he was appointed to his second Principal post at West Island School. The school is one of seven secondary schools which are part of the English Schools Foundation established for over 50 years in Hong ...

Instructor and Business Development Manager, XYZ; Lululemon Ambassador

Striving to make a change in Hong Kong’s fitness industry Rachel brought her vast performing, teaching and managerial experience from the world of Entertainment and helped create a new unique way to work out at XYZ.
After being awarded a Scholarship to attend the Italia Conti School of Theatre Arts in London, Rachel embarked on a successful career as a professional dancer, in which ...

Dominica has been spending the last 5 + years looking after her parents, both affected by different symptoms and conditions of Dementia & Parkinson's disease. She believes in nurturing daily loving mental & physical care, stimulation and interactive activities to maintain quality of life for those affected with dementia.
Brain Health Initiative (BHI) was set up early 2016 by a ...

Scilla Andreen (Pronounced Sheila) is the CEO and Co-Founder of IndieFlix and the founder of the IndieFlix Foundation. She is an Emmy nominated Costume Designer and an award-winning Producer of such films as Bit Players, The Empowerment Project, Screenagers and the recently released Angst a documentary designed to raise awareness around anxiety. She is a popular speaker at Sundance, Cannes, ...

Dr Valerie Sinason (BA Hons PGTC MACP MInstPsychoanal PHD FIPD) is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist and adult psychoanalyst. A former consultant psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic and St Georges Hospital Medical School Psychiatry of Disability Dept, she was Founder Director of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and has specialised in disability, trauma and dissociation. She ...

Dr. Nick Kowalenko is a child and adolescent psychiatrist working in Sydney, Australia. Research interests include school-based early intervention for adolescent depression, population based e-health interventions and public health strategies to improve perinatal mental health. Nick has taught DSM 0-5 in China, Singapore and the Pacific. He is the Oceania Regional Coordinator for ...

Dr Sherry Chan is a clinical academic interested in clinically related phenomenon of psychosis, a condition that has huge impact to patients, their family and the society. One of the phenomena that I have tried to explore is lack of insight in patients with psychosis, both neurocognitive basis and the clinical implication. Early intervention service model has been a well advocated and encouraged ...

Dr. Lee is a Clinical Assistant Professor of the Department of Psychiatry, the University of Hong Kong. He specializes in the field of psychosis with major interests in 1) Psychopharmacology and pharmacoepidemiology, 2) Exercise and cognitive interventions, 3) Neurocognitive science and neuroimaging and 4) Stigma and social psychiatry.
In recent years, Dr Lee has conducted a series of ...

Laura Cowan is an educator and counselor who first moved to Asia in 1995. Laura’s personal and professional experiences have given her excellent insight within the field of international counseling; specifically amongst third culture kids and their families. She has developed programs and presentations aimed at providing support for the common, and often unique mental health concerns i.e. ...

Associate Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong

Dr Siu-man Ng, RCMP, RSW, PhD is an Associate Professor of Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong. With a dual professional background in Chinese medicine and psychiatric social work, his research interest is mental health and Chinese culture, in particular, the applications of Chinese medicine and philosophies in mental health practice. A key ...

Psychiatrist, Toronto Western Hospital; Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Dr. Kenneth Fung is a Staff Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health Program at the Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He is also Associate Professor with Equity, Gender, and Populations Division at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. During a two-year fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, his ...

Dr Josephine Wong is a psychiatrist in private practice. She trained in medicine in London. After her internship, she did a MA degree in Medical Ethics and Law at Kings College London. She trained as a psychiatrist in Cambridge then did full time research in Cambridge on mental capacity to make health care decisions in individuals with schizophrenia, intellectual disabilities and dementia. ...

Professor of Health Humanities, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

Paul Crawford is Professor of Health Humanities at the School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham and Director of the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health, one of the most prominent bodies for mental health research in UK. He also co-directs Nottingham Health Humanities Research Priority Area, advancing the applications of the arts and humanities to ...

Associate Professor at Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Ran is an associate professor at Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong. He has medical degrees (BMed., MMed) from West China University of Medical Sciences and PhD from HKU. He was a clinical psychiatrist at Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital, Sichuan University (1985-1999), and a full professor (Public Health) at University of Guam ...

Assistant Dean (Pedagogy) Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Professor Lam is currently an Assistant Dean in Pedagogy, Faculty of Medicine and Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Primary Care, The University of Hong Kong. He is a Specialist in Family Medicine with a strong interest in primary care mental health research.
He is one of the few family physicians with two research doctorates, including a PhD from the University of ...

Dr. Gabriel Hung is a Specialist in Psychiatry in private practice and an Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong. He is also a Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong (not currently practicing). He is a member of the Health Committee of the Medical Council of Hong Kong and a member of the Guardianship Board.
In addition to his ...

D. Psyc (Clinical), Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong

Paul has been involving in suicide prevention research and mental health promotion and practice since 2003. His recent research projects include social withdrawal behaviour (a.k.a. hikikomori), using animals as part of psychological and educational interventions, and youth positive development interventions for local and non-Chinese in Hong Kong. He is currently an Honorary Fellow of the Centre ...

Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong

Samson is the Professor in Mental Health, Associate Dean (Undergraduate Education) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Master of Social Sciences in Counselling in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong. Prior to his relocation to Hong Kong, he has worked in New Zealand – Dunedin and Auckland− for over 20 years. Samson has ...

Peter is a Partner in Oliver Wyman's Hong Kong office, focused on working largely with Financial Services clients on strategic topics in the Finance and Risk space. He leads engagements with global institutions, working with them to enhance their business performance. His expertise includes bank regulation, capital markets risk analytics, retail banking, and strategic and capital ...

Dr Huu Kim Le is a child and adolescent psychiatrist based in Adelaide.In 2015, he was awarded the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry Clinical Fellowship. He investigated Internet Gaming Disorder, at the National Addictions Management Service adolescent Internet Addiction clinic, in Singapore.
Since then, Kim has founded cgiclinic.com a free Internet awareness website for Australian ...

Deputy Program Director, Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Venus Wong is the lecturer of Department of Social Work and Social Administration and the Honorary Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at The University of Hong Kong. Her teaching and research interests include behavioral health, mindfulness and spirituality for practicing healthcare professionals and trainees. Dr. Wong is a seasoned training consultant in ...

Sandra Sau Man Chan is currently based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean for Student Support in the Faculty of Medicine.
Dr Chan received her MBChB from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists, and the Hong Kong ...

Alex has experience in a wide range of medico-legal and healthcare matters such as disciplinary inquiries before the Medical Council, criminal proceedings, clinical negligence, civil claims, alternative dispute resolution and regulatory and advisory work.

A medical doctor as well as a solicitor and solicitor advocate, David specialises in clinical negligence claims, advising healthcare professionals, including doctors, dentists, physiotherapists, midwives and nurses. His clients also include insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, medical device manufacturers, hospitals, specialist group practices and other ...

Alexa Massingham is a yoga teacher and mindfulness trainer for young
people. Her company Mind Body Matters is the result of her experience
working in education, practice of mindfulness and yoga and her current
Masters in ‘Mental Health of Children and Young People’. She is currently
working with schools, businesses and charities in Hong Kong to support
overall well being of ...

Based in Beijing, Enoch founded Bearapy (www.bearapy.me) after experiencing burnout and clinical depression. Her aim is to advise companies to incorporate executive mental wellbeing as part of corporate culture through a psychodynamic approach. She has worked with MNCs, government, and start-ups across Asia-Pacific and Europe, advising executives and entrepreneurs on internal change ...

Jeremy S.K. Chan is a Barrister at Denis Chang’s Chambers. He maintains a general civil practice, concentrating particular emphasis upon private client work and Chancery matters, especially in the areas of family law and matrimonial finance, inheritance and probate, trust and administration.
In his professional work, Jeremy handles litigation involving mentally handicapped persons - ...

Paul Lu is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Paul volunteers as the FaithNet Coordinator for NAMI Orange County, California. FaithNet is the faith-based arm of NAMI reaching out to faith communities of all faiths promoting mental health initiatives. He is also a certified trainer for the NAMI Family to Family, NAMI Mental Health 101, and NAMI Provider ...

Marco lives in Hong Kong and managed the project for Oliver Wyman to setup the survey on “mental health among professional services employees” for CMHA. Usually his work focuses on Corporate and Institutional Banking and Wealth- and Asset Management clients. Before moving to Hong Kong, he worked ~5 years in Scandinavia, hence received some idea of how a society can deal well with ...

Dr. Maria Hung served as a teaching faculty in The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 2001. She joined Tung Wah College as Assistant Professor in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. Before joining as a teaching faculty in tertiary education institutions, she has rich clinical nursing and teaching experience in hospitals for more ...

Neil Harris has worked in Hong Kong for 26 years as a teacher, playwright and musician.
He has been published in the IB Review magazine
and his plays have been performed around the world and produced on BBC Radio.

Damian Ordish is the head of Reward for Goldman Sachs in Asia Pacific, overseeing Compensation, Benefits, Global Mobility, Wellness, Global Ventures and Crisis Management within Human Capital Management (HCM).
He first joined Goldman Sachs in Tokyo in 2004 where he managed Mobility, before moving to HK to head up HR for Och-Ziff, a leading global hedge fund. Damian returned to ...

Alexander is an Australian trained physiotherapist who graduated from University of Melbourne. For 10 years, he worked in several large private practices in Melbourne, with his practice primarily focused on rehabilitating people with complex back and neck disorders. He has also managed multi-disciplinary pain management programs. In 2012, he moved to Hong Kong and continued working ...

Dr Emily Wong grew up between US and Hong Kong, finishing her GCSE “O” levels at Hong Kong Island School. She moved to Seattle, Washington, where she received her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Washington (UW). She completed specialty training in Internal Medicine at UCLA, and after graduation, she stayed on the medical school faculty as Assistant ...

University College London (Psychology), University of Hong Kong (Medicine)

Janice Lam is a student who has recently graduated with First Class Honours in BSc Psychology at UCL, and started studying Medicine at HKU since September, 2017. Throughout university, Janice has been actively involved in promoting mental health, for example as a project manager at Rethink Mental Illnesses (a UK mental health charity), and as an honorary administrative assistant for ...

Cathy is a CFM Qualified MBSR Teacher from the Center for Mindfulness, at UMass Medical Center, where the original 8-week MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) program was founded and has been researched for 37 years. Additionally, she is a certified teacher in all of the Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP), UK, curriculums for primary, secondary students and school staff (paws .b, ...

Elaine Peng is a dedicated mental health advocate and educator. As a consumer and family member, she provides education to reduce public prejudice against mental illness，and to decrease stigma among caregivers and patients，she helps to promote mental health services and provide peer support within the underserved Chinese Community, helped establish the NAMI Chinese Community Service ...

Christina Lam has been working in the public health field and mental health field in Hong Kong for more than 12 years. She involved in more than 35 researches on smoking cessation and mental health. She currently works as a senior manager at Early Psychosis Foundation (EPISO). EPISO is a charitable institution which aims to make accessible knowledge and experience gained from research and ...

Kimberley Carder completed her undergraduate in Psychology at the University of Southern California and then returned back to Hong Kong. She conducted eye-tracking device research to aid early diagnosis of Autism at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. In the pursuit of being more hands-on in Autism intervention, she volunteering with Autistic children at Watchdog and worked in Special ...

Dr. Olga Zayts’s (the University of Hong Kong) research interests and expertise span across several healthcare contexts in Hong Kong, including prenatal screening and diagnosis, genetic counselling, and most recently mental health. She arrived in Hong Kong 14 years ago after finishing her doctorate training in Europe. At HKU she has founded the Health Communication Research Cluster ...

Dr. Hannah Shipman is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. Originally from the UK, she completed an undergraduate degree in the Biological sciences at the University of Nottingham, trained and then worked as a genetic counsellor in Cardiff and Cambridge and undertook an interdisciplinary doctorate investigating consent to genetic testing at Cardiff University. She uses ...

Dr Chan is currently the Chief of Service and Hong Kong West Cluster Clinical Stream Coordinator (Mental Health) of Queen Mary Hospital. She is also Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Her expertise is in child and adolescent psychiatry and eating disorder.
She is Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry of LKS Faculty of ...

Raymond is a senior occupational therapist working in United Christian Hospital. He was conferred PhD in Medical Science by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is specialised in mental health service.

Dr Duleeka (Dee) Knipe is an epidemiologist with an interest in suicide and self-harm in low and
middle income countries. She has a particular interest in work to reduce the stigma associated with
mental health.
She was funded on a Wellcome Trust doctoral fellowship to investigate the socioeconomic risk
factors for suicidal behaviour in Sri Lanka at the University of Bristol. ...

Stephanie is a Senior Practice Director with BVN, a large award-winning Australian architecture practice who deliver projects
internationally, and have been working in Hong Kong since 2013. BVN are particularly well recognised for their innovative public
projects in the health and research sector both in Australia and overseas, including recent work in Hong Kong with the ...

Mr. Fung Chak Tong, Thomas graduated at the City University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree, major in Social Work. To further pursue his study, he obtained a Master of Social Sciences, Behavioral health at the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Fung is a Certified Addiction Counselor of National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC). Mr. Fung has ...

330 – number of psychiatrists working in the public sector in Hong Kong. The patient-doctor ratio in Hong Kong is about 4.5 psychiatrists per 100,000 people. The United Kingdom has 14.63 psychiatrists per 100,000 people, and Australia has 9.16 psychiatrists per 100,000 (WHO, 2014).

Mental Health Statistics and Information

1 in 6 – number of Hong Kong residents who have a common mental disorder, like anxiety or depression, either now or will in his or her lifetime (Hong Kong Mental Morbidity Survey, 2014).

Mental Health Statistics and Information

60% - Number of Hong Konger’s that report experiencing stress and anxiety related to their job (MHA survey, 2014).

Mental Health Statistics and Information

300 million - number of people who experience depression globally. It is a very common mental health problem.

Mental Health Statistics and Information

15% - percentage of adults aged 60 and over suffer from a mental disorder.

Mental Health Statistics and Information

No. 2 - Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15-29 year old worldwide.

Mental Health Statistics and Information

47.5 million - Number of people worldwide who have dementia (and there are 7.7 million new cases every year).

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